| Show fIt ANOTHER TRAITOR TRAITOR w C I. I Last fall the tho Republicans of r Buffalo N. N Y secured Judge Brewer of the United States supreme su su- preme court to make an address r c Jl M fr g Fr b t. t 1 11 h. h 0 t l X 1 l 1 r J t in that city Judge Brewer is isone isone isono one ono of the tue old Republicans s who ba has often fired his telling solid shots at at mod modern rn party I wrongs wrongs H Hp He e is neither a 3 TO nor a u. f sol a Democrat nor a u Pop Pop just just t simply simp simp- ly 11 an Abraham Lincoln can Here is a apart part of that address address ad ad- dress that we clipped thinking it would make reading leading later fI r f rI I have had no military education education tion I do not know how to conduct conduct con con- duct war I do not edit a a yellow journal and so I yield unquestioning ing assent to the claims made by army and navy gentlemen that in case of war coaling stations in indifferent indifferent indifferent different parts of the globe are desirable And jet yet with the incredulity incredulity- and questioning spirit of a Yankee I 1 cannot but not notice ce that we h have ve gotten otten along for a hundred years without any coaling coaling coaling coal coal- ing station outside of our own territory And further it is iscle cle clear r that f for a a coaling station territory as large largo as New Now England is not essential But beyond that is there not such a thin thing as asI I overdoing this getting ready for forwar forwar I war I have noticed a man who goes about with a chip on his shoulder is very apt to get into plenty of quarrels but the gentleman gentle gentle- man who minds his business is ordinarily left alone and goes goe I through lif life without a fight We V Weha ha have e lived and prospered years with a handful of r regular regular reg reg- ular troops Ve We have preserved peace at home and have been respected respected respected re re- abroad G Government by consent of the governed has little need of th the soldier So the world has come to believe and so it is Are Ar we ready to forfeit this high position 1 Do we not endanger endanger endanger en en- danger the very foundation principles principles principles prin prin- of this government when we make the blare of the bugles and the tramp of the armed bat- bat the music which is heard on every side and t the e inspiration which attracts the ambition of our youth l' l May God save the United States of America and keep them from the road so often traveled by nations of increasing territory accumulating dominion rapidly rapidly-ac I wealth luxurious splendor a growing separation between the poor and the rich decay and death and may we always hear the solemn of Abraham Lincoln borne upward to heaven from cons crated field of Gettysburg that government government government govern govern- ment of and for the people may never perish from earth |
